Carruthers & Roth

Carruthers & Roth, P.A. is a Greensboro, North Carolina law firm whose commercial real estate team advises lenders, developers, contractors, owners and tenants. Its work spans retail, office, industrial, senior living, multifamily and mixed-use property, and the firm says it regularly handles projects across the United States by pairing its own team with local resources.

Acquisition and sale work covers structuring, negotiating and documenting transactions, purchase and sale agreements with financing and land use contingencies, due diligence coordination with environmental specialists, engineers and planners, title, survey and land use issues, closing, conveyance and escrow documents, purchases of troubled property in bankruptcy, and the formation of joint ventures, LLCs and limited partnerships. Leasing covers ground, industrial, office, retail, pad-site, build-to-suit and sublease documents, enforcement and interpretation of lease terms, and workouts, evictions and other remedies on defaults.

Development work runs from land acquisition and construction contracts, including AIA forms, through incentives and abatements, zoning and land use regulation, site plan and subdivision approvals, variances and annexation, and representation before elected officials, regulators and historic preservation commissions. The finance practice represents both lenders and borrowers, from small traditional loans to syndicated transactions, including construction loans, credit-tenant lease financing, foreclosures and workouts, refinancing and recapitalization, sale-leasebacks, and mezzanine and equity arrangements. Environmental and title claims work is handled in-house.

The firm was founded in 1937 and has expanded its single Greensboro office rather than opening satellite locations. It frequently serves as local counsel for national lenders, title insurance companies and other attorneys closing North Carolina transactions. Rates and fee arrangements are not published.